Spectacular Vernaculars

Spectacular Vernaculars
Author: Russell A. Potter
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780791426258

Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.

Spectacular Vernacular

Spectacular Vernacular
Author: Jean-Louis Bourgeois
Publisher: Aperture
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

In these images, white arabesques dance on red walls, and abacus-like mud colonnades shield farmers from sun and wind; mud is "twisted" into playful columns, sculpted into ornate facade relief, and massed into lofty towers of majestic mosques. This edition's new afterword discusses adobe politics in New Mexico, and illustrates the authors' own adobe home.

The Spectacular of Vernacular

The Spectacular of Vernacular
Author: Camille Washington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780935640991

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. and three other institutions between January 29, 2011 and March 18, 2012.

Spectacular Blackness

Spectacular Blackness
Author: Amy Abugo Ongiri
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0813928591

Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.

The Language of the Sangleys

The Language of the Sangleys
Author: Henning Klöter
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9004184937

An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.

Vernacular Modernism

Vernacular Modernism
Author: Maiken Umbach
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804753432

Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.

Spectacular Happiness

Spectacular Happiness
Author: Peter D. Kramer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743223241

Finding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.

American Vernacular

American Vernacular
Author: Frank Maresca
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780821227800

A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes. 12,500 first printing.

Between Beats

Between Beats
Author: Christi Jay Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2021-04-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0197559301

Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay Wells shows how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development even as jazz music came to earn a reputation as a "legitimate" art form better suited for still, seated listening. Through the concept of choreographies of listening, the book explores amateur and professional jazz dancers' relationships with jazz music and musicians as jazz's soundscapes and choreoscapes were forged through close contact and mutual creative exchange. It also unpacks the aesthetic and political negotiations through which jazz music supposedly distanced itself from dancing bodies. Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author's own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, it advances participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it explores the fascinating history of jazz as popular dance music, it exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broad cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to "elevate" expressive forms such as jazz to elite status.

Flappers 2 Rappers

Flappers 2 Rappers
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0486121623

Entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans from the end of the 19th century to the present. Alphabetical listings for each decade, plus fascinating sidebars about language and culture.